W 154 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does W 154 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 154 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and transit (93). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 154 Street, with 152 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among numbered streets. Across every category, 333 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition follows with 52 reports, and plumbing with 36. The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 154 Street carries roughly 126 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 79 Class C violations on West 154 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 154 Street is pests, at 58 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (30 violations) and heat and hot water (28). City housing records put 265 homes in 28 residential buildings on West 154 Street, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 9.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 46, with infrastructure at 6. West 154 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 40 and housing at 10 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 63 and tree cover 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 154 Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
The housing file puts 40% of the 265 homes on West 154 Street in rent stabilization, 106 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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W 154 Street runs through Harlem and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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